The more archaeologists dig into Egypt’s ancient tombs, the clearer it becomes: the Ancient Egyptians were cat people. In ...

“A bird that has a lifetime of experience with novelty will probably desensitize to a scarecrow faster,” Friedman explains.

Brendan Fraser's resurgence in popularity is long overdue and has led to one of his most famous movies being rediscovered by ...

Scientists and archaeologists still harbor serious doubts about who the people were that mixed with the Thracians around 5,000 years ago, from which Thracian civilization itself would emerge. But it ...

The mummy portraits are stunning. Their production began around 30-40 ce, sixty or so years after the defeat of ...

Our next adventure took us to Aswan, the gateway to Egypt’s mystical south. We boarded a super-fast night train, gliding ...

A team from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has discovered a sealed lead capsule hidden within the foundations of an early 20th-century villa in central Alexandria.

The prayers written by the ‘sweet singer of Israel’ have retained their hold for millennia.

Objects owned by the British Museum are hitting the road. In recent years, the London museum has quietly taken awe-inspiring artefacts into classrooms across England, giving students in primary ...

The energy on opening day felt less like a post-Brexit correction and more like the city snapping back into its golden ...

She travels through studios, galleries and the strange rituals of the art world to offer a fun and entertaining crash course ...

I was deeply pleased to see scientist Omar Yaghi win the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Saudi news outlets celebrated him as the first Saudi to win a Nobel Prize, which delighted me as well. Yet, when ...